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Title: The Black West
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
EAN: 9781682752265
ISBN: 9781682752265
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 02/09/2019
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 228mm
Item Length: 6mm
Item Width: 152mm
Author: William Loren Katz
Genre: Society & Culture
Description: This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on America's early frontiers. This revised volume includes an exciting new chapter on the Civil War and the experiences of African Americans on the western frontier. Among its fascinating accounts are those explaining how thousands of enslaved people in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas successfully escaped into the neighboring Indian Territory in Oklahoma. These runaways inspired the idea eventually adopted as the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves within the states that were in rebellion. Inspired by a conversation that William Loren Katz had with Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers like Nat Love, a.k.a. Deadwood Dick; Mary Fields, a.k.a. Stagecoach Mary; Cranford Goldsby, a.k.a. Cherokee Bill—and a host of other intrepid men and women who marched into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo.
Topic: Social Sciences, Home Garden & Pets, History
Edition: Revised edition
Release Year: 2019

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